Kantos Chamber Choir: In Your Dreams

Programme

Traditional arr Ellie Slorach Golden Slumbers
Eric Whitacre Sleep
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Pseudo-Yoik
Billy Joel arr Philip Lawson (Goodnight, My Angel)
Mátyás Seiber Three Nonsense Songs No 1 ‘There Was an Old Lady of France’
Josef Rheinberger Abendlied
Mátyás Seiber Three Nonsense Songs No 2 ‘There Was an Old Person of Cromer’
Ēriks Ešenvalds Only in Sleep
Mátyás Seiber Three Nonsense Songs No 3 ‘There Was an Old Man in a Tree’
Camden Reeves The Maze of Sleep
Charlie Perry On the Ning Nang Nong
Edmund Jolliffe Be not afeard
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Cloud Capp’d Towers
Laura Mvula Sing to the Moon
Interspersed with texts by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson

Performers

Ellie Slorach director
Kantos Chamber Choir

About

Part of RNCM’s new Inspirational Artists series.

Where do we go in our dreams?

As dusk drapes the world in velvet shadows, sleep whispers its invitation. It is here, in the quiet hours between night and dawn, where this music lives, embarking on a quest to discover what happens when we close our eyes. Journey through improvised soundscapes, poetry, and choral music by composers including Eric Whitacre, Laura Mvula, Vaughan Williams, and a new commission by Kristina Arakelyan to unveil the hidden landscapes of our dreams and the mysteries of the subconscious mind.

We also welcome members of the RNCM Research Department and the University of Manchester, who will study how our brain responds to live music during this event. They will give a short demonstration of their process before capturing and processing live brain wave data in real time and projecting it behind the choir, illustrating the extraordinary power of music.

Kantos are a trailblazing vocal ensemble, performing at the cutting edge of the creative scene. They produce vocal performances shaped by the music and stories they believe in. Performing music by everyone from 11th century visionary saints to genre-bending, experimental rock stars, Kantos prides itself on championing contemporary and well-known choral music.